Re: WAR: Turkish Army Continues To Pound Syria For A 2nd Day In Response To Mortar Strike Across Border!!! Turkey Green-Lights Military Action...

Related note on "No Fly Zones"

Excerpt from CS Monitor, "Why no safe zone in Syria, yet?""As I explored in a piece for the United States Naval Institute, imposing a no-fly zone in Syria would likely mean conducting intensive Suppression of Enemy Air Defense to destroy Syria’s air defenses and air force. Even a partial no-fly zone would likely require some strikes outside its limits in order to degrade Syrian airfields, early-warning radars and mobile or semi-mobile air defense systems....Additionally, any proposal for military action needs to be understood in a fully comprehensive manner. A no-fly zone (NFZ) cannot be established without some air strikes to eliminate air defenses. Any air strikes would require an NFZ that would allow freedom of action by the forces involved." (Emphasis Added)

So in a "No Fly Zone," NATO would fly around destroying Syrian air defenses.

For the more suspicious folks out there, NATO would shoot anything that "appeared" threatening as well.

...It could act as "cover" to assasinate Assad...which is why Russia would veto a "No Fly Zone."

Re: WAR: Turkish Army Continues To Pound Syria For A 2nd Day In Response To Mortar Strike Across Border!!! Turkey Green-Lights Military Action...

yea,

good luck with that,

Syria saw what happened to Gaddafi,

he's going to hit back with everything he's got.

And, I wouldnt expect Russia and China to sit back as Syria gets attacked.

Related note on "No Fly Zones"

Excerpt from CS Monitor, "Why no safe zone in Syria, yet?""As I explored in a piece for the United States Naval Institute, imposing a no-fly zone in Syria would likely mean conducting intensive Suppression of Enemy Air Defense to destroy Syria’s air defenses and air force. Even a partial no-fly zone would likely require some strikes outside its limits in order to degrade Syrian airfields, early-warning radars and mobile or semi-mobile air defense systems....Additionally, any proposal for military action needs to be understood in a fully comprehensive manner. A no-fly zone (NFZ) cannot be established without some air strikes to eliminate air defenses. Any air strikes would require an NFZ that would allow freedom of action by the forces involved." (Emphasis Added)

So in a "No Fly Zone," NATO would fly around destroying Syrian air defenses.

For the more suspicious folks out there, NATO would shoot anything that "appeared" threatening as well.

...It could act as "cover" to assasinate Assad...which is why Russia would veto a "No Fly Zone."

Re: WAR: Turkish Army Continues To Pound Syria For A 2nd Day In Response To Mortar Strike Across Border!!! Turkey Green-Lights Military Action...

No word from China yet? In the earlier devolpments of the Syria issues they were against western interference. I wonder what their response will be, if any.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1841487

Mild rhetoric, they are too close to a hot war with Japan to actually attempt to intervene in a Syria/Turkey conflict,they havent the resources to become active in the ME and the Pacific. They simply cannot lose face to the Japanese.